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The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States

11 March 2010

The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States (pdf)
By Steven Merley
Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
HUDSON INSTITUTE
Synopsis
The leadership of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood (MB, or Ikhwan) has said that its goal was and is jihad aimed at destroying the U.S. from within. The Brotherhood leadership has also said that the means [...]

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Top 10 American jihadis: Where does Jihad Jane rank on the list?

11 March 2010

Christian Science Monitor, 11 March 2010: Pennsylvania woman Colleen LaRose, who called herself Jihad Jane, is only the latest in a string of Americans to support violent jihad. Her alleged mission to recruit fighters and murder a Swedish artist falls into a rising tide of homegrown Islamic militants who are using their passports and linguistic [...]

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Report highlights growing risks of terrorism in the U.S.

11 March 2010

Foreign Policy, 10 March 2010: Since last fall, five major incidents have brought the issue of “homegrown terrorism” to the fore, as Washington policy experts try to find new ways to combat what seems to be a growing trend. The U.S. government needs to refocus its efforts on extremists born and raised in American communities, [...]

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Adam Gadahn, Traitor

10 March 2010

Human Events/Robert Spencer, 10 March 2010: Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn in a new videotape released Sunday declared:
“I am calling on every honest and vigilant Muslim in the countries of the Zionist-Crusader alliance in general and America, Britain and Israel in particular to prepare to play his due role in responding to and repelling the aggression [...]

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Jihad Jane, an American woman, faces terrorism charges

10 March 2010

Washington Post, 10 March 2010: A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist intent on recruiting others to her cause, as federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges that could send her to prison for life.
Colleen Renee LaRose, 46, has been quietly held in U.S. [...]

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al-Qaida Terrorist Cell with Female Jihadist on Trial in Brussels

8 March 2010

VOA, 8 March 2010: Nine alleged members of an al-Qaida terrorist cell are on trial in Brussels on charges of having recruited jihadists and prepared terrorist attacks. . . .
. . . The trial is notable in that it includes a woman, Belgian-Moroccan Malika El Aroud, 50, who has prior convictions in Belgium and Switzerland [...]

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A look inside Al-Qaeda by ex-terrorist

8 March 2010

CBN/Erick Stakelbeck, 8 March 2010: Western leaders are often at odds over how to take on the threat of Islamic terrorism. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, appears totally focused on its mission. The terrorist group is obsessed with destroying the United States. And according to one former colleague of Osama bin Laden and Ayman [...]

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Traitor Adam Gadahn on Jihadist/US Army Major Nidal Hasan

8 March 2010

The Lessons of Adam Gadahn (FrontPage/Robert Spencer, 8 March 2010)
The first American to be charged with treason since World War II was back in the news Sunday, both for a new videotape he released and for reports of his capture that turned out to be false. In the videotape, al-Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn, an American [...]

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Fox Interview with Israeli Spy

5 March 2010

♦ CI CENTRE COURSE: 361–The Global Jihadist Threat Doctrine
Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices by Mosab Hassan Yousef

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UK Muslim Leader: Islam Not a Religion of Peace

3 March 2010

CBN, 2 March 2010: The Obama administration has released a review of its strategy in the war on terrorism. The report failed to even mention the word “Islam.” CBN News traveled to London to talk with Anjem Choudary, a leading Muslim radical who says Islamic teachings are what shaped his pro-jihad message. Although both George [...]

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How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War: Defeating Jihadist Terrorism

3 March 2010

Middle East Forum/Raymond Ibrahim, Winter 2010: Islam must seem a paradoxical religion to non-Muslims. On the one hand, it is constantly being portrayed as the religion of peace; on the other, its adherents are responsible for the majority of terror attacks around the world. Apologists for Islam emphasize that it is a faith built upon [...]

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Wilders’ Best Witness

3 March 2010

FrontPage, 3 March 2010: As the trial of Geert Wilders for insulting Islam moves forward in the Netherlands, the one witness that could clear him of these charges will not be called. Muhammad Taqi Usmani is a highly respected and well-known expert on Islamic law who served for 20 years as a Sharia judge on [...]

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Interview with Double Agent/Suicide Bomber Humam al-Balawi

1 March 2010

Short Excerpt:
NEFA, 1 March 10: As-Sahab Media: “An Interview With The Shaheed Abu Dujaanah al-Khorasani” (a.k.a. Jordanian doctor, CIA asset Humam al-Balawi who blew himself up, killing seven CIA personnel in Afghanistan)
. . . . [The Shaheed Abu Dujaanah al-Khorasani] “In Shaa Allah [God willing], we will get you, CIA team. In Shaa Allah, [...]

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Freed French hostage speaks of al-Qaeda ordeal

1 March 2010

BBC, 25 Feb 10: A French aid worker who was held by al-Qaeda’s North African wing in Mali says he was beaten and that his captors tried to convert him to Islam. Pierre Camatte, 61, was released on Tuesday in a prisoner swap after three months in captivity. He made the comments after arriving on [...]

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Generation Jihad, Episode 2

22 February 2010

BBC Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. Following the attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, this landmark series looks at the angry young men of Generation Jihad who have turned their backs on the country where they were born. (See also Episode 1)

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Generation Jihad, Episode 1

17 February 2010

BBC Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. Following the attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, this landmark series looks at the angry young men of Generation Jihad who have turned their backs on the country where they were born.

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Generation Jihad: Young people ‘brainwashed with Al Qaeda propaganda on the internet’

16 February 2010

Daily Mail, 15 Feb 10: Religious extremists are increasingly turning to the internet to find, indoctrinate and radicalise young Muslims, according to a new documentary series. Like sexual predators they prey on vulnerable young people, quickly brainwashing them with Al Qaeda propaganda and very quickly turning them into potential terrorists. New BBC2 series [...]

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Colonel Allen West Answers a Marine’s Question

15 February 2010

See also: Retired Army officer Allen West: Fight for this country
♦ CI CENTRE COURSE: 361–The Global Jihadist Threat Doctrine

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Five Australians jailed for jihad plot

15 February 2010

Reuters, 15 Feb 10: Five Australian Muslims found with weapons and chemicals to make bombs and convicted of plotting a terror attack in Australia were jailed on Monday for terms ranging from 23 to 28 years. The men were found guilty in October 2009 of conspiring to commit an attack between July 2004 and November [...]

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For a French Imam, Islam’s True Enemy Is Radicalism

15 February 2010

What happens when a Muslim tries to be “moderate”:
New York Times, 12 Feb 10: HASSEN CHALGHOUMI, 38, is the imam of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s dreams. He supports a ban on the full facial veil, the so-called burqa; he opposes religious radicalism and promotes a “republican Islam” focused on France; he is ecumenical; and he favors [...]

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Airport body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslims say

12 February 2010

Airport body scanners are a bad idea because too many people who really understand how they work have said that the scanners would never find the type of explosives the Underwear Bomber used. Also, because we Americans think throwing money at technology will easily solve all problems instead of investing in what really works: intensively [...]

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Military to Discipline Officers for Failing to Report Views of Suspect in Ft. Hood, Texas Shootings

11 February 2010

Careers ended because of failure to understand the Jihadist Threat Doctrine; soldiers lives are ended also because of this failure to know this threat:
Wall Street Journal, 9 Feb 10: The military will formally discipline at least six officers, mostly from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, for failing to take action against the officer [...]

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The Jihadist CBRN Threat

11 February 2010

STRATFOR, 10 Feb 10: In an interview aired Feb. 7 on CNN, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she considers weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the hands of an international terrorist group to be the largest threat faced by the United States today, even bigger than the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran. [...]

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Jihadist Nuclear Threat

10 February 2010

Excerpt from the documentary “The Third Jihad”:

http://www.thethirdjihad.com/

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Jakarta bombings ‘right in Allah’s eyes’

10 February 2010

ABC Online, 10 Feb 10: One of the men accused of being part of the terrorist cell behind the bombings of two Jakarta hotels last year says the attack was right in the eyes of Allah. Three Australians were among the seven people killed in the blasts. Amir Abdillah is the first of the accused [...]

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Army warned about jihadist threat in 2008; Specialists say advice ignored

9 February 2010

Washington Times/Bill Gertz, 9 Feb 10: Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism — Islamic holy war — was a serious problem and threat to personnel in the U.S., according to participants at a major Army-sponsored conference. The annual Army [...]

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Young British Muslim ex-prisoners unrepentant on views

8 February 2010

BBC, 8 Feb 10: Two young British Muslims who have served short prison sentences for terrorism offences have spoken frankly about their views to a new BBC documentary investigation into the extent of the radicalisation of Muslims in the UK. The views of Rizwan Ditta and Bilal Mohammed, two young Muslims born and brought up [...]

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U.S. torn over whether some Muslims pose threat or offer insight

8 February 2010

Dalls Morning News, 7 Feb 10: After the worst military base massacre in U.S. history, officials acknowledged that they failed to “connect the dots” – the shooter had been corresponding with an imam tied to al-Qaeda and had condemned the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a war against Islam.
But Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal [...]

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If Aafia Siddiqui, who attempted to shoot a US soldier, is not released, the Taliban threatens to shoot a US soldier they have as prisoner

5 February 2010

Either way, another US soldier is going to die at the hands of Jihadists motivated by Islamic doctrine.
PakTribune, 5 Feb 10: The Afghan Taliban on Thursday demanded the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who has been convicted by the US court on charges of her alleged attempt to murder US soldiers in [...]

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Bomber’s American Teacher

5 February 2010

Fox News, 5 Feb 10: An American born Islamic scholar who once gave religious instruction to the accused underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, is coming under fire for videotaped remarks denouncing western courts and democracy despite his reputation as a moderate.
Following the arrest of Abdulmuttalab last December in Detroit, Yasir Qadhi expressed surprise at his [...]

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US Government ‘De-radicalization’ Expert on Terror Watch List

5 February 2010

PJM/Patrick Poole, 4 Feb 10: Following the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) has come under fire for failing to connect the dots concerning bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. But new information concerning the NCTC’s de-radicalization expert, Yasir Qadhi, raises questions about how far the rot of political [...]

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Afghanistan: Friend of U.S. Troops Shoots U.S. Troops

5 February 2010

Human Events/Robert Spencer, 4 Feb 10: Last Friday an Afghan interpreter shot dead two of his employers, American soldiers serving in Afghanistan. He was able to gain access to them, of course, and to be in their presence, because he had won their trust with his translation work and they let their guard down.
Their trust [...]

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Trial could get Muhammad his death wish

4 February 2010

Arkansas Leader, 2 Feb 10: Last June, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad killed a soldier from Conway and injured another soldier from Jacksonville in front of a recruiting station in Little Rock. Pvt. William Long, 23, died from a single bullet wound. Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 19, who lives in the Sunnyside section of Jacksonville, survived by playing [...]

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Pakistani magazine calls Prophet Muhammad a Jihadist Prophet

4 February 2010

MEMRI, 3 Feb 10: In a recent article, the Urdu-language jihadist magazine Haftroza Al-Qalam argued that Islam’s Prophet Muhammad was a “jihadist prophet” and that his Companions, the caliphs and the angels too were jihadists; it also noted that jihad is a duty of Islam. Haftroza Al-Qalam is loyal to the Pakistani militant organization Jaish-e-Muhammad, [...]

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American cleric in Yemen admits meeting Airliner Plot suspect; calls for killing US military and intelligence officers

1 February 2010

New York Times, 31 Jan 10: Anwar al-Awlaki, the fugitive American-born cleric accused of terrorist ties, acknowledged for the first time that he met with the Nigerian suspect in the Dec. 25 airliner bomb plot, though he denied any role in the attack, according to a Yemeni journalist who said he met with him.
Mr. Awlaki [...]

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The Jihadist Next Door

29 January 2010

New York Times, 27 Jan 10: . . . . Omar Hammami had every right to flash his magnetic smile. He had just been elected president of his sophomore class. He was dating a luminous blonde, one of the most sought-after girls in school. He was a star in the gifted-student program, with visions of [...]

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The Islam Tax

27 January 2010

Political Islam/Bill Warner, 25 Jan 10: Look at your next airline ticket and you will find a “Security Fee”. What is the Security Fee that was passed after September 11, 2001? It is an Islam tax. It is more money out of an American’s pocket to pay for the privilege of living with Muslims amongst [...]

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US will fail to split Taliban, ex-Pakistan spy says

27 January 2010

Reuters, 27 Jan 10: Attempts by the Afghan government and its allies to split the Taliban by luring away foot soldiers and isolating leaders will fail, said a retired Pakistani security agent who knows Taliban leaders. . . . . Retired Brigadier Sultan Amir Tarar, a former senior member of Pakistan’s main Inter Services Intelligence [...]

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The Pentagon’s Willful Blindness

26 January 2010

American Thinker/Andrew Bostom, 26 Jan 10,  Bostom is the author of recommended The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims:
The Pentagon’s bowdlerized “analysis” of the jihad-inspired mass murder committed by a pious Muslim officer at Fort Hood is a disgrace. The willful blindness toward the essence of jihad will harm our troops.
I [...]

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Iraqi doctor shouts “Allah Akbar” as he attempts to free Nidal Hasan, his “Muslim brother” who was “shot by infidels”; Threatens hospital staff with beheading

26 January 2010

San Antionio Express, 26 Jan 10: An Iraqi doctor encouraged security officers at Brooke Army Medical Center to shoot him earlier this month after telling others that he planned to free accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a federal agent testified Monday. FBI counterterrorism and military intelligence operatives took a hard look at [...]

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Report says Al-Qaeda still aims to use weapons of mass destruction against U.S.

26 January 2010

Washington Post, 26 Jan 10: When al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called off a planned chemical attack on New York’s subway system in 2003, he offered a chilling explanation: The plot to unleash poison gas on New Yorkers was being dropped for “something better,” Zawahiri said in a message intercepted by U.S. eavesdroppers. The [...]

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Arkansas recruiting center killing suspect: ‘This was a jihadi attack’

25 January 2010

CNN, 22 Jan 10: A Tennessee man — accused in a fatal attack at a military recruiting center in Arkansas in June — wants to plead guilty and claims to have ties to al Qaeda in Yemen in a letter he wrote to the judge presiding over his case. In the handwritten letter dated January [...]

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Shooter of US Soldiers in Arkansas claims terror ties; says attack was “justified according to Islamic laws and the Islamic religion”

22 January 2010

New York Times, 21 Jan 10: A Tennessee man accused of killing a soldier outside a Little Rock, Ark., military recruiting station last year has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming for the first time that he is affiliated with a Yemen-based affiliate of Al Qaeda. In a letter to the [...]

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CIA bomber’s widow: No tears for killed CIA mother of three

22 January 2010

CNN, 21 Jan 10: When Defne Bayrak arrives there is no mistaking she is the woman we have come to meet. Despite the cold she is composed and ready for the interview we agreed. She is ready to talk about the suicide bombing carried out by her double-agent husband just days earlier, an attack that [...]

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Why They’re Really at War With Us

21 January 2010

Human Events/Thomas Paine, 21 Jan 10: Thomas Paine is the nom de plume of an active-duty Army officer with two combat deployments to the Middle East and almost two decades of service.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not [...]

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Pentagon on Fort Hood: Jihad? What Jihad?

21 January 2010

Human Events/Robert Spencer, 21 Jan 10: The Defense Department released its report Friday on the jihad massacre at Fort Hood, and it is hard to imagine a document more full of denial and deception. Above all, the Pentagon seems intent on ignoring and obfuscating the reasons why Nidal Hasan murdered thirteen people at Fort Hood [...]

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VIDEO: Capitol Hill Hearing on DOD Ft. Hood Report

20 January 2010

C-SPAN, 20 Jan 10: Fort Hood Shooting Report Focus of House Armed Services Committee Today. Former Army Secretary Togo West and retired Navy Admiral Vern Clark, authors of the recently released report on the Fort Hood shootings, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on their findings. This was the first of two days of [...]

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Senate Committee Reacts to DOD Report on Ft. Hood

19 January 2010

US Senate Committe on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, 15 Jan 10: . . . .“I am encouraged that the Department recognizes the need to update its policies to protect servicemembers and welcome the Department’s intention to hold accountable those who failed to take necessary protective action.
“I am disappointed, however, that the report does not [...]

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Lonely Trek to Radicalism for Terror Suspect

19 January 2010

New York Times, 16 Jan 10: Well before Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab disappeared into the rugged mountains of Yemen with an ominous goodbye to his father — warning him that “this is the last time you are going to hear from me,” according to top Nigerian officials — the tensions between the two pious men had [...]

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Protect those who serve: Fort Hood slaughter shows lax security in armed forces

19 January 2010

New York Daily News, 16 Jan 10: As many as eight former superiors of Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan face disciplinary action for failing to act on crystal-clear warning signs that he had become a radical Islamist. Accountability is demanded, but it must extend well beyond the few middle-ranking officers who had first-hand [...]

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